Senior Behavioural Scientist

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Praesignis (Pty) Ltd Full time

Job Purpose

Responsibilities:

  • Work with business units to define target behaviours.
  • Scope advisory projects and develop workplans.
  • Conduct literature reviews to contextualize target behaviours and proposed behavioural interventions.
  • Guide data exploration to contextualize and quantify target behaviours.
  • Undertake qualitative research to effectively diagnose the context and psychological barriers to target behaviour.
  • Effectively package and communicate the findings of primary and secondary research to business units.
  • Design and proposed behavioural interventions.
  • Support business units to test behavioural interventions (RCTs or A/B tests).
  • Provide training to business units on behavioural insights relevant to their business units.
  • Support the effective knowledge management and curation of behavioural science research through brown bag session.
  • Establish relationships with clients through constant engagement.
  • Assist in positioning the BE Unit as valued business partner through proactive engagement and networking with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Monitor performance by aligning own contribution to delivery of departmental plan against expected outcomes.
  • Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
  • Resolve work obstacles by managing on a casebycase basis and early escalation where required.

Requirements:

  • Honours Degree in Economics, Psychology, or Social Sciences
  • More than 5 years experience consulting in financial services or working in a financial institution
  • Ability to produce quality work under pressurised circumstances

Qualification and Skills Must haves:

  • Grade 12 / Matric / National Senior Certificate
  • Honours Degree in Economics, Psychology, or Social Sciences

Minimum Experience Level:

  • More than 5 years experience consulting in Financial Services or working in a Financial Institution
  • Ability to produce quality work under pressurized circumstances

Type of Exposure:

  • Conducting root cause analysis using a behavioural lens
  • Developing business plans
  • Challenging the status quo with a view to improving the environment or People's understanding
  • Analyzing situations or data that require an indepth evaluation of multiple factors
  • Drafting reports (mostly PPT)
  • Influencing stakeholders to obtain buyin for concepts and ideas
  • Sharing information in different ways to increase stakeholders understanding
  • Brainstorming ways of improving a product or situation
  • Conducting a needs analysis


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